For the third straight game, the Canadiens looked tremendously ordinary and the starting goalie was pulled. So much for my previous pep talk. A total of eighteen pucks have found their way behind our two netminders during this three-game stretch, with last night being a 6-4 loss at the hands of the home town Pittsburgh [...]

There you have it. Alexei Emelin gone for the year with a torn ligament in his left knee. All because he made the remarkably gutsy and heroic decision to try to stop Milan Lucic dead in his tracks as the big Bruin was barreling full-tilt down the wing. Emelin was doing the job the best [...]

It must be up to a couple of dozen times now that I’ve checked different places about the state of Alexei Emelin, but it seems the word isn’t out yet. Yes, I’ve read in various places that he’s gone for the season, but how do these folks know? There hasn’t been an official announcement that [...]

Habs 2, Bruins 1. Now that’s hockey! It wasn’t good when Lars Eller pulled Zdeno Chara off-balance and took a seat in the penalty box with just 57 seconds remaining and his team holding on. The goalie was pulled and it was tense. Even tenser than when Lucy drives in the city. But they held [...]

Two goals and an assist for Michael Ryder as he and his Canadiens hand the Florida Panthers a 5-2 smacking, and the first-place squad finishes off a highly successful five-game road trip losing only once along the way. And although he didn’t exactly have to overextend himself on this night, Peter Budaj has now won [...]

The Canadiens held Tampa Bay to just two shots in the third period and fought back from a 3-1 deficit with three unanswered goals to keep the tricolour train a rollin’. A big 4-3 comeback win. What a team this year. It’s amazing. One of the biggest reasons the Habs have turned it around is [...]

A decent first period, an extremely lousy second, and then a decent third allows the Canadiens to skate away with a 4-2 win in Raleigh, and when all was said and done, it was Carey Price coming through when needed. Price was solid throughout, it’s two big points for his team to remain in the [...]

It was a fine night in Boston, a spirited affair between two teams who like to have spirited affairs, and in the end, the Montreal Canadiens rally and beat the Boston Bruins 4-3, and back to the head of the class they go. And they did it with Peter Budaj between the pipes. It was [...]

Of course when the shots were around 25 to 5 for the Canadiens and they only held a 2-1 lead, I had dark thoughts of disaster rearing its ugly head. But the team never let it slip away, they carried on, and skated away with a solid 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Thugs, although [...]

I set my PVR to record the Habs-Flyers game, went to work, and avoided the computer and radio for hours so I wouldn’t know the score. I almost made it. A fellow I know drove his semi off the ferry later in the evening, opened his window and yelled at me, “Habs 4-1!” But I [...]